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Preseason Buzz: Rankings, Rivalries, and Game Day Excitement! · The BIG LIFE

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  Hey everyone, I'm Leah Klinke. And I'm Kate Phillips.
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  And welcome back to the Big Life Podcast. We're so excited to dive into some
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  super exciting topics for today, now that preseason is officially over.
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  Yes, today we're going to be talking about preseason rankings,
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  upcoming schedules, and all the work that it takes getting ready for season.
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  We have so much to cover today, so let's jump right in. Kate,
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  how did your preseason games go?
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  Um, they went pretty well. We just had one against Kansas State. We ended up tying 1-1.
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  Obviously, like, we would have loved to have won that game, but we learned a lot.
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  Yeah, learned a lot about our team. A lot of freshmen got in,
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  so they were able to, like, kind of get those nerves out.
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  So I think that we got a
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  lot like good takeaways from that game obviously we've
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  done film and everything since so I think
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  we've learned a lot and can't wait to get into our first game after like that
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  game game how'd your eyes like oh you guys just played Indiana how did that
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  go yes we did it didn't go great honestly we lost 2-0 credits Indiana they're
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  a great team they just got a new coach, I think, this year.
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  So they really played their system well. They were well organized.
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  They were able to get in behind us a lot, and they capitalized on two chances
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  that we definitely could have stopped, but we'll learn from it and move forward from it.
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  A lot of people got playing time on our team.
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  Some of us are coming back from little injuries and things, so definitely not the best game for us.
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  But I mean, that's what preseason is all about, to kind of knock off the rust
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  and just get ready for the regular season.
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  So definitely grew a lot from that game, went over a bunch of film,
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  but we've got a lot of improvement to do for sure.
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  Yeah. What do you guys like film usually look like? Do you guys do like individual
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  film or will you do like team film?
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  So we have a mixture of both. We mainly just team film.
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  So before practice, like the next day, we have a big video board in our locker
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  room and the coaches will do
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  film probably like it depends the game like 15 30 30 minutes of film and.
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  Just mainly just specific plays from the game where we could have done better
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  or also things that we did well. They'll show all our goals on there.
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  The goal scored against, obviously. So just a lot of like learning points.
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  They stop it, rewind it, kind of see how everyone's moving and how we can improve on each play.
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  And then we also do individual film sometimes.
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  So the coaches will text us sometimes individually and be like,
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  hey, can you come in at this time just to go over some of like your individual
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  clips? or you can clip some things yourself and then go up to them and talk
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  about it with them if you have any questions.
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  And then we also do like unit film, I guess.
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  So like sometimes like the defenders will have a little film session to kind
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  of go over their shape together and how they move midfielders and forwards,
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  all of that. So what about y'all? How do you do film?
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  Yeah, we'll do like really similar. Like we'll do team film usually like day
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  or two after the game, kind of go over,
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  yeah good bad everything in between
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  yeah it can seem a little bit scary for people that have like never like for
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  as a freshman coming in there it is a little bit scary just because you can
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  get you're gonna get called out if you're in front of the team like that's just
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  it but like it's not to be like scary it's to learn and like see like what you
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  could do better maybe like,
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  usually they'll show yeah goals like what you did well but usually in team film it's more of like.
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  I don't know, like, pressing moments, moments as, like, a team are,
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  like, really, like, great or bad, you know?
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  Everything in between. And then, like, I'll do one-on-one, like,
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  goalkeeping film usually with my coach.
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  And then we'll go over, like, everything, like, super technically throughout the game.
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  And then, obviously, like, everybody else kind of does that,
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  like, functionally based on their position.
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  But usually with my goalkeeping coach, we'll go over, like a
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  lot of different clips like positioning in the goal we'll go over set pieces
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  yeah a lot a lot of clips but you learn a lot like I love doing film because
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  you like in a moment you think you're maybe doing something right but you could
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  be like in the wrong position or whatever so.
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  Yeah yeah it's nice to just like see it all from the bigger picture and especially
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  in pre-season And, like, it's so important.
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  We probably do the most film ever in preseason. And we also look at,
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  like, past season games and kind of highlights to see how we want to play.
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  But especially in preseason, like, we have to, like, know your team identity,
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  know how you play, know how you press, know how you defend, know how you possess.
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  Like, so especially in preseason, I feel like that's almost the most important time for film.
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  And then, of course, right after games to go over how the game went.
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  And it's nice to just see, like, a simplified picture. You're like,
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  like in the moment you're like, feel like you're so under pressure or whatever.
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  And then you're like, wait, there's a pass right there that I didn't see.
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  It just makes it all simple.
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  Yeah, definitely. Talking about preseason, what were your reactions of the preseason
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  rankings that came out a couple of weeks ago? You guys were pretty high up there.
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  Yeah, so Notre Dame, we were ranked number two.
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  Obviously, it's an honor to be ranked there, but these preseason polls really
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  don't mean anything, like, at all. So...
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  We kind of just don't even think about that, don't even worry about that,
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  because it actually means nothing.
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  So honestly, it's almost better, in my opinion, to be ranked lower,
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  because then you have more to prove.
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  If you're under-ranked or you think your team is undervalued and they were ranked
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  lower than they should have been, then you feel like you have something to prove.
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  But now, I mean, we definitely will have a target on our backs all season from all the teams we play.
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  So definitely like pressure, but at the same time, we just kind of wipe that.
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  We don't even think about that we have the mindset of like
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  we're coming in as the underdogs and everyone wants to
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  beat us but we like we really are like we
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  have something to prove to them so that's kind of our mindset going
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  in but I mean it's it's definitely an honor
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  that they see us as being such a good team we have a bunch of returners
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  like almost all our starters we have
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  a bunch of good young kids our sophomore class especially
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  is really good we had some good freshmen coming in so
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  it's nice that they value us that high
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  but yeah it means nothing and all the teams
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  on there are all great and anything can happen like I'm curious to see kind
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  of how the past year like preseason versus postseason rankings are and how they
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  change and like how that's going to be this year because I'm sure it's going
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  to be all different like half those teams aren't even going to be in the top
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  25 I'm sure by the end so yeah it's just amazing.
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  It's always, like, interesting to see based off also, like, last season,
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  they're kind of going off of, like, the rankings and, like, returning players
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  and whatever. Like you guys said, you have a lot of returners.
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  That's, like, huge when it comes
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  to, like, a new season, just because you guys know each other so well.
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  Yeah. I always think it's, like, interesting with how they, like,
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  figure that out based off last season and returners.
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  Like you said, it really doesn't mean anything. but
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  it's a good starting point to know that like right can
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  be in a in a great spot when yeah and
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  people see that already uh-huh right yeah and
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  it's nice like we do it's kind of like we
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  do have basically the same team but at the same point at the
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  same time like we've been focusing a lot on this preseason I
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  was like no like all of us went back home for summer
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  we did our own things like we're coming back and we're like starting over like
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  it's it's not the same we're all a little bit different now
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  we've all grown we've all improved so that's kind
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  of what especially after these pre like our preseason really
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  didn't go as we planned didn't go the best
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  but I mean that's what preseason games are for but that's
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  why we're kind of like no we're starting over we have like new
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  team new like identities and we're just gonna
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  go from there yeah I love that we
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  talked about that like last episode my teams we've talked
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  about that like a lot and like one of our things is like obviously
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  well SEC rankings haven't come out but we
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  always like say like one thing we started talking about was like why not us
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  in like different games different situations like why not us if we come in like
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  under ranked and past SEC we've been near the bottom so it's like why not us
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  this year and we've talked about that a lot and like in our team building team activities like.
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  How can it be us and like us as like a group in a united way like we we want it to be like
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  i don't know how to explain just just like not not
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  looking at other teams just like yeah yeah no
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  that's great that's a good motto i feel like to follow after and you
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  guys can all be like grounded on that and just come together before every
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  game and then people will probably like if you guys are like
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  overlooked and it's like no like we're we're here and we're gonna
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  play you guys hard and or like the team starting over
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  so i'm sure you guys will surprise a lot of teams this year
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  for sure yeah it'll be exciting yeah talking
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  about games first season first
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  like season opening games are this week on
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  thursday we play so how are
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  you guys looking forward to that who do you guys play so yeah
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  all ncaa division one
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  women's soccer first games are this thursday and sunday so
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  we're super excited i'm super excited on thursday
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  we play western michigan which should be a great game they're a good team and
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  we play them pretty often almost i've played them a couple times since i've
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  been at notre dame but they're always a good team and they're gonna they're
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  gonna play us very hard so we just got to prepare for that but we're all super
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  excited and super pumped to get the season started at home.
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  And then on Sunday, we travel to Arkansas, to Fayetteville. We play Arkansas.
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  So we're ranked number two right now. They're ranked number six.
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  So it's going to be a great game. I'm so excited for that. It's really going to be a battle.
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  Arkansas, they're very fast, physical.
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  They've got some tall players. They play pretty direct. They're a very good team.
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  So it's going to be, we kind of have two different styles of play,
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  but it's going to be a great game and a battle for sure. So I feel like that's
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  one to really look out, look forward to this week.
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  Who do you guys play? Yeah, our first game is also Thursday.
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  We play our South Dakota State and don't really know a lot about them.
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  So kind of going into the game like open minded.
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  Obviously, we'll do probably a scout and everything this week.
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  But yeah, just super excited to like play with our team.
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  Finally, home game. We don't have another game during the week,
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  so nothing else to really look forward to. Just that, which I really like.
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  We can just really lock in on that first game.
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  And then Sunday, I will be watching you guys' game because I'm so excited.
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  Obviously, we'll play Arkansas later in the season, but hoping for the best
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  for you guys. I know you do well.
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  But yeah, definitely a fun game. Yeah, it should be fun.
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  Really fun. That's kind of nice that you guys just have one game,
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  so all your focus can go towards winning that. and then you can move on from there.
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  That's nice. So now there's a bunch of other big games this week as well.
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  So let's kind of talk about those now and maybe we'll have some score predictions
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  or we can kind of see how we think the games are going to go.
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  First up, we have UNC versus Tennessee.
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  So UNC, obviously, women's soccer powerhouse.
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  They're the reigning national champions. a bunch of very very talented players
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  and then Tennessee is also very good.
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  They're fast, strong. They brought in a bunch of good transfers.
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  They're not currently ranked, but again, the preseason rankings mean nothing.
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  So they're unranked, but they are a very good team in general.
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  So I think they're going to win. I think for my score prediction on this,
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  I think it's going to be 1-0 UNC.
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  Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that will be a really good game just
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  because Tennessee obviously has a lot of new players.
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  They brought in a lot of forwards from what I've seen. and some really good
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  transfer portal forwards.
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  So I think they'll give UNC a challenge. But, I mean, UNC has,
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  they have so many players.
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  Like, so many good players that are coming back.
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  So, yeah, I agree. 1-0 at UNC for that game. Yeah, that's going to be a great game.
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  All these games, I'm so excited to watch as many as I can to see them. I know.
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  Okay, next up we have number 18, Ohio State versus Clemson.
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  So Ohio State is ranked preseason. They did really well in the Big Ten last year.
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  And then versus Clemson. Clemson is unranked, but they're often a very good team.
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  They're often ranked, I feel like, a lot. So I'm surprised they're not ranked
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  this season so far. But they have a lot of very good, especially young players.
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  And I think this game's going to be really good. But I think Ohio State's going
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  to pull out the win 2-1. That's my score prediction.
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  That's a good one. I might go like, I don't know Clemson too.
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  I don't know both these teams too well.
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  One of my friends is a goalkeeper, known to reason, is a goalkeeper for Clemson.
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  So maybe I'll go 1-2.
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  Clemson winning and hoping my friend Nona has a good game yeah I know Nona too she's she's.
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  Hoping yeah hoping Nona has a good game then yeah yeah so the next game is UCLA versus Georgia,
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  and obviously UCLA always a
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  great team won the national championship a couple
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  of years ago and they're coming in ranked eighth and
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  Georgia is unranked and they're also have
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  been such a good team in the past couple of years won the SEC two years ago
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  I'm pretty sure they're pretty fast and physical team but they're also like
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  really technical and I also have like know their goal keeper I know you do too
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  Jordan she yeah she's awesome I love watching her play she can literally punt the ball box to box,
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  which I mean, see often.
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  It's a big presence on the field. So I'm going to go UGA winning 2-0 in that game.
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  Yeah, I mean, I think that's going to be a good game. I think my score prediction, 1-1.
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  I feel like, yeah, 1-1.
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  I kind of, I do agree on that a little bit, yeah.
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  Could be a back and forth, definitely. Will be interesting to watch.
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  Yes, for sure. I think that game's going to be very back and forth.
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  Next, we have Florida versus Florida State. So a big rivalry game right off
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  the bat, their first games of the season.
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  So I bet both of those teams are fired up for this. So Florida,
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  they have a bunch of transfers I know.
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  And Florida State is ranked number three preseason rankings.
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  And they, Florida State, another powerhouse.
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  They're a really good team. They play really pretty style of soccer.
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  And they have a lot of international players and also a bunch of players who play on U.S.
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  Youth national teams and they're always a really good team. So I'm going to go with...
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  As a score prediction for 4-1 FSU. Yeah, I feel like that's pretty solid.
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  I love for Florida to have, like, a good game. Florida State just scores goals.
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  Like, they really do. They just have such, like, such good team.
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  And then people coming off the bench, you're like, oh, my gosh.
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  The same girl, like, fast, just sprinting at you the whole game. Like, tall, fast.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's a pretty good prediction for that game.
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  Yeah. Next, we got Iowa coming in at number 13 versus Arkansas,
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  who is ranked number six.
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  And this is also a home game for Arkansas.
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  And Arkansas, if you've never seen any of their home games, they bring in a huge crowd.
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  And for the first game, I assume, it'll be packed.
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  And I don't know.
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  I feel like that's going to be a really, really fun game to watch as well.
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  But I'm going to go with, I think, 3-1 Arkansas.
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  They're a team who just, again, puts balls in the back of the net.
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  That's just who they are, very
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  direct. So it'll be interesting to see how Iowa holds up against them.
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  Yeah, that's going to be a really good game. I mean, Arkansas has a tough,
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  like first weekend, they play number 13 Iowa.
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  And then number two Notre Dame, but both games at home.
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  So that should be, they're definitely going to be up for those games.
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  I feel like Arkansas is the type of team who like lives for the energy and the
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  adrenaline and like all the emotions.
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  So I feel like it's good on their part that they have two ranked teams first
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  because they're going to have the most energy coming off for the first games of the season.
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  So those should all be good games.
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  I know. So excited to, you know, see if we got our score predictions right.
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  I know. We'll have to come back to them.
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  Yeah, we will. We will. Super exciting first weekend of soccer in general.
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  And, I mean, this is just the first weekend. Then we have the whole season after
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  this. I know. I'm getting excited just talking about this. I'm pumped.
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  I know. I'm so excited to just, like, I don't know, watch games,
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  like, cheer on my friends.
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  Obviously we know a lot of the people like playing in
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  like these games so i don't know
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  it's just exciting that like finally the season's
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  back like it feels like we were playing i was
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  literally feels like we just ended season but we've
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  put in some work in the spring and this summer's preseason so yeah finally like
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  be back on the field yes yeah for sure for sure preseason like flew by this
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  year so fast can't believe it's over it really did it I like actually can't
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  believe the first game's.
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  Yeah, this week. Like, season is here. And then sooner or later,
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  we're going to be mid-season and, like, getting ready to play conference games before we know it. Cool.
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  I think it's really cool how, like, I mean, both me and you,
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  I feel like, just from playing in clubs and different environments when you're
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  younger, ODP, random ECNL events, we just know so many people on so many different
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  teams or, like, kind of know them.
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  But and then you play them and you need to say hi after.
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  And I feel like the soccer world, there's so many. It's big,
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  but so small at the same time. And like everyone knows someone.
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  You always will have a connection to the other team. So I think that's I think that's kind of fun.
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  And that's kind of unique and just really cool about soccer.
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  I feel like that's kind of special. Yeah, I think ECNL, obviously,
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  we both played like ECNL, did a great job at like connecting teams and players
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  at like different selection events or whatever.
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  But I think it's so cool.
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  Like when you when you play somebody and you know somebody on the team or even
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  watching games, I love watching games when I know one or two players.
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  Like I I don't know on a Sunday we don't
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  have a game and like going through games I'm like oh
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  my gosh I know like three people playing yeah I
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  watched this game it's always just so like
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  so much more fun when you know somebody yeah it's so
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  yeah and then it's like friends from afar because like
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  I would like get really close with some of these girls
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  for like a day or two or like a week camp for example and then I see them like
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  once or twice every year but it's so fun to see them and catch back up with
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  them and we all kind of stay in touch like on text or whatever but on instagram
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  yeah at least but yeah it's it's super fun to see your friends and just.
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  Like random people you know like from all over the country
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  too it's it's it's cool yeah definitely like
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  fun also cheering people on even if you don't even
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  know like a team like you're just like oh my gosh so like
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  I told you guys are doing well like I don't
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  know yes yeah yeah yeah I know yeah or whatever uh-huh yeah so many connections
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  what so since we're done about season do you guys have any or well your team
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  or you do you have any personal goals that you're setting for the season.
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  I mean yeah our team definitely has some goals
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  I mean obviously the biggest goal is to win the
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  natty at the end of the year but I mean we just
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  we really focus on one day at a time one game at
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  a time we treat like every game as
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  a season so we don't look for the next game until like
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  we what am I trying to say we don't look forward to the next game
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  until we've played that one game so right now
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  our whole season is western Michigan because that's our first game that's
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  all we're focusing about and that's kind of
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  our mentality going into the season so I mean I guess team goals is just take
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  it day by day and win every game and then off of that like every day at practice
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  it's just like give our coaches always talk about give 100% of whatever you have that day.
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  So if you're not feeling well, you've had a hard day at school,
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  you only have 80% energy for the day, give all 100% of that 80% and then that'll
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  help make the team like 1% better.
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  So we kind of talk about like that as a team.
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  Personally, I mean, I feel like.
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  I have very high standards for myself. I feel like I'm my biggest critic.
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  I try not to look too far into the future, think about any of that.
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  And I'm really trying to focus this season on just staying in the present and having fun.
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  I feel like those are, I mean, I have a bunch of like, sure,
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  like accolade goals, like whatever.
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  But what's most important to me is staying in the present and having fun.
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  And if I do have fun while I'm playing, when I'm having the most fun when I
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  play is when I play the best.
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  So I feel like that's important to me. Just savor every day.
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  I'm trying to practice a lot of gratitude. Just being grateful for everything,
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  for every day, for every practice I get with my team because,
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  again, this is my senior season.
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  So just really trying to stay in the present and have fun while doing it because
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  I love soccer and have so much fun playing.
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  So those are kind of my personal goals.
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  What about you? Do you have any goals for your team or personally for this season?
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  I think for our team this season, it's just like kind of what you're saying
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  is like we talk a lot about like, yes, there's we're playing South Dakota State first game.
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  But like focusing on ourselves and like
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  what we can do because I mean we don't know what they're
• 23:25
  going to come out doing so just focusing like on ourselves going
• 23:29
  into games and like exactly like what you were talking about like giving like
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  we talk about that all the time can you give whatever you have today in training
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  because it's going to make everybody around you better and if you're giving your 100% for that day,
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  then somebody else trying to give their 100%, even if it's higher,
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  it's going to lift you up because they're just lifting up how you're playing that day as well.
• 23:56
  So I think just focusing on ourselves and not really like,
• 24:00
  Thinking about other teams, going day by day, not looking ahead,
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  I think is a big thing as well for us.
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  And then personally, one thing I've talked about a lot, especially I feel like
• 24:12
  a lot of soccer players, this is something like we'll talk about is like playing
• 24:16
  in a flow state a little bit.
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  So like I've talked about this with one of our like sports, like psychologist type people here.
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  But just like the best games
• 24:28
  that I play I'm always like in a flow state of just like
• 24:31
  everything just feels like I'm doing
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  like everything right even maybe
• 24:38
  I might not be but then if
• 24:41
  I'm like once I make like one good save then like the next
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  one is just like just feels like I'm in
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  the right place doing everything with confidence one
• 24:50
  thing we talk was a lot is like bravery in goalkeeping so
• 24:54
  i think just like playing trying to like find that
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  in the first couple games and then just like building
• 25:01
  on top of it just because i am playing
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  in that like flow state that that's
• 25:07
  when i play play my best yeah getting
• 25:11
  i don't know stuck in my head or letting
• 25:15
  like anything kind of get to me because
• 25:18
  as a goalkeeper it can be really easy for
• 25:21
  one bad thing to stack on top of another.
• 25:24
  And then right just crash out
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  a little bit yeah yeah it's definitely hard
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  I feel like goalkeeper especially mentally is very hard
• 25:34
  I like that kind of terminology used with
• 25:36
  flow stead I've actually never heard that before but that sounds
• 25:40
  like something great for you to focus on and just
• 25:43
  build on top of it game after game and kind of set the tone early
• 25:46
  in your season and I feel like that'll carry with
• 25:49
  you throughout the season something my team talks about
• 25:52
  kind of similar I don't really know if it's similar but our coach
• 25:55
  always says like you can't get
• 25:58
  too high too high on the highs or too low on the lows
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  so if you have a great game like I mean
• 26:03
  season flies by so you have a great game okay like that's celebrate
• 26:07
  that night sure like like well-deserved game
• 26:11
  and win but like next thing
• 26:14
  like you have to focus on the next game now because you got another hard game
• 26:16
  in four days time and then on the
• 26:19
  other hand don't get too low on the lows if you lose a game if you have a rough
• 26:22
  game personally or the just the team in general like you really have to flip
• 26:26
  the page fast because you got another game coming maybe in like two days so
• 26:31
  that's kind of what our coach talks about I guess kind of I was like that's
• 26:36
  kind of relating to like a flow state, I guess, like mentally.
• 26:40
  So, yeah. Last thing, what are you most like either nervous for or excited about
• 26:45
  for this upcoming season?
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  I think I'm just most excited about like playing like, I mean,
• 26:54
  very like easy to say, but just like playing with this team because we've put
• 27:00
  in a lot of like work on the offseason and preseason.
• 27:05
  And I think that like what
• 27:08
  I was talking about earlier is saying like why not us
• 27:11
  some people are come kind of going into the
• 27:14
  season like maybe other teams thinking that oh Mizzou
• 27:17
  like yeah we're a gritty team we're
• 27:20
  we we will fight till the end like we're not going
• 27:23
  to give up but I just think like going into
• 27:26
  the season just like excited to
• 27:29
  play with this team this group because you never get
• 27:31
  to play with them again so just looking
• 27:34
  forward to that like everything with my
• 27:37
  team like doing everything with them there are
• 27:40
  some fun memories being made how about you
• 27:43
  yeah I mean mine's like very similar
• 27:46
  I feel like just spending time with my teammates every day I mean they're my
• 27:50
  best friends so I always look forward to spending time with them and I'm excited
• 27:56
  to play with them and all my eyes are on thursday so i'm most excited for the game on thursday yes,
• 28:05
  i'm so excited to watch you guys play see how you guys do maybe we'll score maybe yeah.
• 28:13
  We'll see yeah i'm so excited to watch you guys too that'll be exciting yeah
• 28:17
  i have too many games to watch this week i know i know well guys that's a wrap
• 28:23
  on our rankings and schedule breakdown,
• 28:26
  we're getting so close to the game starting yes we're so excited for the season
• 28:31
  to get underway so thank you guys all so much for listening and following along
• 28:35
  our journey we love hearing all of your guys's messages and questions so you
• 28:41
  can find us on instagram at kate phillips 04,
• 28:45
  and at leah.clinky next week hopefully we'll have some i mean we will have some
• 28:50
  real game results to talk about.
• 28:53
  So that's going to be interesting, a fun one to listen to. So stay tuned for that.
• 28:57
  Yeah. Until then, thanks for listening to the Big Life Podcast.
• 29:00
  See you guys next week. Bye.